SB60 Alabama 2017 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Memorial Preservation Act, monuments 40 years and older on public property prohibited from relocation or removal, monuments 20 to 40 years old required to get permission of Committee on Alabama Monument Protection, members, waivers, fines, exemptions

Description

This bill would establish the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017.

This bill would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of monuments located on public property which have been in place for 50 or more years This bill would prohibit, and provide a mechanism for, the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of monuments located on public property and which have been in place for less than 50 years.

This bill would prohibit any person from preventing the governmental entity responsible for maintaining the a monument from taking proper measures to protect, preserve, care for, repair, or restore the monuments.

This bill would restrict the renaming of a county, municipality, school, street, bridge, building, park, preserve, or reserve which is located on public property.

This bill would create the Permanent Joint Committee on Alabama Monument Protection and would provide for the membership and duties of the committee, including the granting of waivers.

This bill would provide for the levy of fines for violations of the waiver process.

This bill would also provide for exemptions.

To create the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017; to prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of monuments located on public property which have been in place for 50 or more years; to provide a mechanism for the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of monuments located on public property which have been in place for less than 50 years; to prohibit any person from preventing the governmental entity responsible for maintaining the monuments from taking proper measures to protect, preserve, care for, repair, or restore the monuments; to restrict the renaming of a county, municipality, school, street, bridge, building, park, preserve, or reserve which is located on public property; to create the Permanent Joint Committee on Alabama Monument Protection; to provide for the membership of the committee; to provide for the duties of the committee; to authorize the committee to grant waivers; to provide for the levy of fines for violations of the waiver process; to exempt certain art and artifacts, the Department of Transportation, local governments, universities, and utilities under certain limited circumstances; and to amend Section 11-40-7, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the renaming of a municipality, to provide for application of this act.

Subjects

Monuments